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Re: Captain Sim 757/767 Top of Descent missing.
Reply #15 - Nov 19th, 2013 at 2:06am
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Could you share the route with us Tim? I would like to give it a try.

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I am hoping really hard that they will get the FMC lined out. From my perspective, the 757/767 are perfect and don't need anything new. Just FMC fixed.
I have to agree with that. Fixing the FMC is a must, even though they have said there will be no more free updates to them.

I was actually tempted to buy the another company version of the "Lite FMC" MD-87 (I like the MD-87 more than the MD-81/82), but I already have the MD-87 Expansion, so I decided against it.

Besides that, I now have the Super 80 Professional, which is not as nice looking, but more complex, and I like it's inbuilt "tutorials" on how to do things. Grin
  

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Re: Captain Sim 757/767 Top of Descent missing.
Reply #16 - Nov 19th, 2013 at 4:07am
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Yes, they do things well, which is why I bought their new (? everything's new to me) DC-9. The Super 80 Pro is one of my all-time favorites, and to me the graphics are just clean and functional (and easy on frame rates!) Love flying around South America in my Juan Valdez livery lol

I finally completed the SBSP-SLVR flight. I'm not sure exactly what I did, but one thing was deleting the last waypoint in the route, giving me 120 miles to the 5000' hold over the airport. Even then, there was all sorts of strangeness: wandering off course, overspeed on VNAV descent, and, much to my passengers' entertainment, a barrel roll when I turned off AP. Eventually I just went to Heading Select until I could get it to "stick" to LNAV, and used VS with manual throttles to idle. In the end, while on LOC it was about 100 meters to the right of the runway, so I just cut out all the automation and flew it in myself.

While I like things to be "perfect" it is good advice to see automation as a tool that may or  may not help you complete your flight. And, up to a point, I'm willing to do that.

Some of that might be my problem, since I was goofing around showing my son the toilet and the like  Embarrassed So it all goes into the database between my ears, and maybe I'll sort things out.

I will say the Captain Sim 757's FMC is in-depth enough to let you create and add fixes to your flight plan, and does holds well. I have a support question in over at another forum about these issues, and haven't had a single answer yet. (Yeah, I fly other airplanes than Captain Sim sometimes. I'm not proud of it. Right now there's a cute and sophisticated European model I'm seeing quite a bit of.)

There was a discussion at AVSIM recently about support. For some unknown reason, people delight in crying about Captain Sim support. Maybe years ago, but it looks to me like the perfect system has fallen into place here. There is the KB, but knowledgeable -- I guess I can use the word fans, right? -- handle most of the support. And you guys to it so well, too. I just wish I was smart enough to help more. At yet another support forum, I don't even want to ask anything because the question might be in a 250 page manual or discoverable on the forum if you happen to hit upon the right search string. In other words, there are some people who act like support is such a bother, and delight in making you feel stupid. That doesn't go on here. So keep up the good work!
  

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Re: Captain Sim 757/767 Top of Descent missing.
Reply #17 - Nov 19th, 2013 at 1:57pm
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Tim Capps wrote on Nov 19th, 2013 at 4:07am:
At yet another support forum, I don't even want to ask anything because the question might be in a 250 page manual or discoverable on the forum if you happen to hit upon the right search string. In other words, there are some people who act like support is such a bother, and delight in making you feel stupid. That doesn't go on here. So keep up the good work!

I wonder if I know which one you refer to?

There is one forum (is it the same one you refer to?) I do not like asking questions in because every time I have, they answer the question rudely. It's like I must be a complete idiot to not know the answer to the question! I mean, like hello, would I ask the question in the first place, if I already knew the answer? Geez. Makes me shudder just thinking about it. It's also why I try to be nice and polite about answering questions.
  

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Re: Captain Sim 757/767 Top of Descent missing.
Reply #18 - Nov 19th, 2013 at 8:07pm
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I love the response, "This has been answered a million times!!!" Well, then, maybe there's a reason for that, hmmmm? By and large most folks are civil. It seems like the more "realistic" products are perceived to be, the less patience one may expect.
  

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Re: Captain Sim 757/767 Top of Descent missing.
Reply #19 - Dec 24th, 2016 at 4:04pm
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Sorry to bring this up 3 years later, and I don't know if somebody has already suggested this, but..

Since I can't get 'ARR' on LSK1R in DEP/ARR whilst at the departure airport (it doesn't appear until in descent, I don't know how you guys are getting it); and since I don't plot STARs personally using the FMC because of AIRAC complications (I plot them using FSNav then just go at ATC discretion anyway); the original fix doesn't work for me. I also don't like the idea of choosing the landing runway at the departure airport 'cause it's just not realistic.

The only way I've managed to do it (the moving waypoints about and hitting 'ERASE' method didn't work for me either) is to enter the destination ICAO as the final leg and add an altitude restriction of the airport elevation. I've just bought this plane so I've yet to see how accurate the ToD is but at least it gives a ToD.
  
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Re: Captain Sim 757/767 Top of Descent missing.
Reply #20 - Dec 25th, 2016 at 12:07am
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Why bother worrying about adding a STAR in the ARR, if you end up using the ATC for the arrival? As you said "enter the destination ICAO as the final leg and add an altitude restriction of the airport elevation" work's for you, and the ATC doesn't use STAR's, and it doesn't care where the TD is in your flight plan, as it will tell you when to descend when it's ready.
  

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Reply #21 - Dec 25th, 2016 at 9:44am
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I'm not sure what you're saying, read that over a few times and can't make sense of it sorry
  
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Re: Captain Sim 757/767 Top of Descent missing.
Reply #22 - Dec 26th, 2016 at 12:27am
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Okay.  I know that the STAR/TRANS part of the FMC, doesn't always (almost never) work in the Captaim Sim 757, and 767, which is very annoying. The work around doesn't always work either, but it works most of the time for me, and sometimes it takes a lot of attempts to get it to work (sometimes I even give up).

However, if you use the ATC for an IFR flight, which is when the ATC guides your flight, once you get on your route, and altitude, everything is fine until you arrive near your destination. Once that happens, the ATC gives you altitude, heading, and eventully a runway that you will land on. It will not follow the STAR/TRANS that you might enter into a flight plan, so why bother adding it. Also, the ATC doesn't care when the FMC tells you it's time to descend, the ATC will tell you to descend when it determines that it's time to do so. So if you're using the ATC for guidance (IFR), I don't see the point of adding a SID, or STAR/TRANS to a flight because the ATC doesn't guide you by them. I never use SIDs, or STARs when doing an IFR flight, guided by the ATC.
  

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